

Python Bytes
Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken
Python Bytes is a weekly podcast hosted by Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken. The show is a short discussion on the headlines and noteworthy news in the Python, developer, and data science space.
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Nov 15, 2019 • 28min
#156 All the programming LOLs
Topics covered in this episode:
* Why You Should Use* python -m pip
Visual Studio Online: Web-Based IDE & Collaborative Code Editor
Black 19.10b0 Released — stable release coming soon
Extras
Joke
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Nov 6, 2019 • 32min
#155 Guido van Rossum retires
Topics covered in this episode:
Guido retires
SeleniumBase
Reimplementing a Solaris command in Python gained 17x performance improvement from C
20 useful Python tips and tricks you should know
* Complexity Waterfall*
Plynth
Extras
Joke
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Oct 29, 2019 • 32min
#154 Code, frozen in carbon, on display for all
Topics covered in this episode:
Lesser Known Coding Fonts
Django Admin Handbook
Your Guide to the CPython Source Code
Six Django template tags not often used in tutorials
Beautiful code snippets with Carbon
Researchers find bug in Python script may have affected hundreds of studies
Extras
Joke
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Oct 23, 2019 • 27min
#153 Auto format my Python please!
Topics covered in this episode:
Building a Python C Extension Module
What’s New in Python 3.8 - docs.python.org
UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is warning developers of the risks of sticking with Python 2.7, particularly for library writers
Pythonic News
Deep Learning Workstations, Servers, Laptops, and GPU Cloud
* Auto formatters for Python*
Extras
Joke
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Oct 15, 2019 • 26min
#152 You have 35 million lines of Python 2, now what?
Topics covered in this episode:
JPMorgan’s Athena Has 35 Million Lines of Python 2 Code, and Won’t Be Updated to Python 3 in Time
organize
PEP 589 – TypedDict: Type Hints for Dictionaries With a Fixed Set of Keys
gazpacho
How pip install Works
daily pandas tricks
Extras
Joke
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Oct 10, 2019 • 26min
#151 Certified! It works on my machine
Topics covered in this episode:
Python alternative to Docker
How to support open-source software and stay sane
MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch
Extras
Joke
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Oct 5, 2019 • 24min
#150 Winning the Python software interview
Topics covered in this episode:
How to Stand Out in a Python Coding Interview
The Python Software Foundation has updated its Code of Conduct
The Interview Study Guide For Software Engineers
re-assert : “show where your regex match assertion failed”
awesome-python-typing
Developer Advocacy: Frequently Asked Questions
Extras
Joke
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Sep 25, 2019 • 37min
#149 Python's small object allocator and other memory features
Topics covered in this episode:
Dropbox: Our journey to type checking 4 million lines of Python
Setting Up a Flask Application in Visual Studio Code
Multiprocessing vs. Threading in Python: What Every Data Scientist Needs to Know
ORM - async ORM
Getting Started with APIs
Memory management in Python
Extras
Joke
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Sep 18, 2019 • 24min
#148 The ASGI revolution is upon us!
Topics covered in this episode:
Annual Release Cycle for Python - PEP 602
awesome-asgi
Asynchronous Django
Sunsetting Python 2
Extras
Joke
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Sep 11, 2019 • 25min
#147 Mocking out AWS APIs
Topics covered in this episode:
rapidtables
Quick and dirty mock service with Starlette
Mocking out AWS APIs
Single Responsibility Principle in Python
Extras
Joke
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